Improvement in apparatus for binding stalks



' S. KUH.

Apparatus for BlindingStalks.

No. 145,739,A Patented Dec.23,1873

WhLnesses:

"UNITED STATES PATENT Orr-10E SOL KUH, OF JEFFERSON, IONA.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FCR BINDING STALKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,739, dated December 23, 1873; application filed A April e, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOL KUH, of Jefferson, county of Greene and State of Iowa, have invented an Apparatus for Holding and Binding Stalks, 8Go., of which the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying plate of drawings hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification, wherein are set forth the nature and principles of the invention, by which the same may be distinguished from others of a similar class, together with such parts thereof as are claimed as-new and are desired to be vsecured by Letters Patent of the United States.

My invention relates to apparatus made use of for the purpose of binding together stalks, reeds, Ste.; and the nature thereof consists in certain improvements in the construction of the same, hereinafter described and shown.

In the accompanying plate of drawings, which illustrates my invention and forms a part of the specification thereof, Figure l is a side elevation; Fig. .2, an end view 5- Fig. 3, a view of the bottom part, to `,which the feet or legs are secured.

The corrugated plate A is provided with a flange or base, c, to which are secured the rings c, which rest in slits cut in the detachable legs E. The plate B is provided with apertures, through which pass screw-bolts d, the heads of which are rigidly attached to the plate A. yThe said corrugated plate B rests upon the ange a, and is secured to the plate A by means of the nuts i upon the screw-bolts d. Stalks, reeds, Src., having been placed in the corrugations wit-hin' the plates, are held rmly together while being bound or united.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The corrugated plate A, .provided with a base, a, rings c, bolts d, plate B, nuts i, and detachablelegs E, provided with slits, all combined together as and for the purposes dv scribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 4th day of February, 1873.

soL Kuri..V [L s1 Iitnesses S. S. WILKINSON, NV. B. MAvEs. 

